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    My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak

    HP Invents Time Machine, Converts iPhone into Classic Calculator

    Alpha Mat: Dancing For SMS Freaks and Math Nerds

    Dude Puts a Pipe in a TI-83 Calculator; Calculator Still Works

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    Image of EBone EBone
    07/05/09

    In reply to My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
    Funny, my sixth grade graduation present was one of those 50-in-1 Radio Shack hobby kits like Woz describes. Built every thing you could with it. Wow I spent a lot if hours with it.


    When my mom and dad died about 15 years ago, I found my mom had packed it away carefully. It's now in the closet alongside the MIB Lego Millenium Falcon, waiting for my little guy to get a few years older.

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    07/03/09

    In reply to My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
    I envy him his watch; its spectacular. I never knew what those were called "nixie" until reading this. One of my first electronic calculators used them as the display, and I never got over thinking they were the coolest thing I had ever seen. Do they have applications beyond display?
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    07/03/09

    In reply to My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
    For some reason this just kicked my respect for Woz up another notch.


    He was really responsive to the question asked. Instead of just listing some cool gadgets he remembered, he really told a story. I feel like I came away knowing him better than I would after most interviews.


    Thanks Woz!

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    07/03/09

    In reply to My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
    I like gears and things that clunk. I remember a variety of old typewriters I used to have and an old manual adding machine.


    The tactile feel of things really helps me connect to something. I remember the sort of squeaky feedback of the Atari 2600 joystick, the clicky feedback of the joystick on my C64, and the satisfying cachunk of a manual frame advance on my old Pentax SLR.


    Tactile feedback is important to me. It assures me that something is happening. It might be the click-click-click of an actual jog dial or the subtle hum of a whirring drive. I want to feel that feedback. That's where a lot of my memories are.

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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    07/03/09

    In reply to My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
    A couple of my notable gadgets are a Russian Kvarts DRSB-01 radiation detector - Geiger tube, but no actual counter.


    As a kid, I'd take a phone recording pickup coil and plug it into a mini cassette recorder with headphones, and I'd go around and listen to the different EM radiation in the house - find where wires ran in the walls, compare the tones I'd hear in incandescent and fluorescent bulbs, etc... geeky stuff.


    My current watch is decidedly low-tech, but still plenty gadgety... after a lifetime of wearing accurate, indestructable Timexes, I've started wearing mechanical skeleton watches - check eBay for dozens - you can see the mainspring coil up as you wind it, and watch the balance wheel swing back and forth, flexing its hairspring, rocking the pallet fork back and forth on the escape wheel, etc... it's really hypnotic. Mechanical watches tend to lose or gain a few seconds per DAY though! I find this isn't a problem since I see the time on so many accurate digital devices in a day as it is, so I can keep it set properly...

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    07/03/09

    In reply to My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
    For some reason I thought the Nixie Watch, which I coveted when first I saw it, was ridiculously expensive. But it turns out they're only $400 - not bad at all!
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    Image of Brett Benedict Brett Benedict
    07/03/09

    In reply to My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
    So what exactly is so special about that watch? I mean, it looks awesome and everything, but what makes it so attractive to the Woz and fellow techies?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    07/03/09

    @Brett Benedict: It's a Nixie tube watch, w/Nixie Tubes! Nixie tube are just cool. [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of stryder100 stryder100
    07/03/09

    In reply to My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
    Sweet. My earliest gadget was a germanium radio, something like [www.shinegallery.com] I slept in the basement and hooked up a little alligator clip to a pipe and listened to the Kinks and Supremes.


    My most meaningful gadget was problem an IBM PC Junior. The specs were way low end (single sided floppy with 360k, no hard drive, 128k of ram) but it came with a word processor and I found a spreadsheet that would run on it plus lots of games. But what most paved the way to my career for me was I could run an assembler on it (masm? I don't remember).

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    07/03/09

    @stryder100: I did a report on Germanium as a kid, and it's the only element I always remember the number to, 32.
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    Image of jayteemo jayteemo
    07/03/09

    @WarOperationPlanResponse_GitEm...: what about hydrogen?
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    07/03/09

    @jayteemo: It's a noble gas, right?
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    07/03/09

    @WarOperationPlanResponse_GitEm...: Nope, not only is it #1 on periodic table, but it should be #1 in your heart as well:



    + Watch video




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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    07/03/09

    @BloggyMcBlogBlog: I'm close to Lakewood/hurst, not in it. Damn Hindy-berg.
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    Image of Dancing Milkcarton Dancing Milkcarton
    07/03/09

    In reply to My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
    140 volts? That nixie watch is outrageous!
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    07/03/09

    @Dancing Milkcarton: Indiglo in watches runs on 100-200 volts AC.
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    Image of Scott Lee Scott Lee
    07/03/09

    In reply to My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
    Interesting, how did Giz get a hold of the Woz?
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    Image of tok3ninja tok3ninja
    07/03/09

    @Scott Lee: Him and BLam regularly play Squash in Sundays. And I think him and Adam were in the same tap dance class.
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    07/03/09

    @tok3ninja; is strapped to a rocket for the 4th: I must disagree. But let's go to the videotape!


    Chairman, have you made your decision?



    The Winner Is.........Iron Dancer Wozniak!

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/03/09

    @Scott Lee: By the horns.
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    Image of Mark Wilson Mark Wilson
    07/04/09

    @Scott Lee: Giz is written by a small army of robots. Woz invented the robots.
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    07/03/09

    In reply to My Most Memorable Gadgets, By Steve Wozniak
    I, too, have a love of nixie tubes. Call me old fashioned, but they strike me as a perfect mix of "olde" tech and new tech.
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    Image of Major-n0ob Major-n0ob
    07/03/09

    @WarOperationPlanResponse_GitEm...: new retro?
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    Image of Nicholas Black Nicholas Black
    07/03/09

    @Major-n0ob: Netro
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    07/03/09

    @Nicholas Black: NetroBooks! It's the new Netbook name everyone!
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/03/09

    @Major-n0ob: Metro.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/03/09

    @Major-n0ob: Destro.


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    07/03/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: What does DESTRO

    THE

    FRIEND!

    look like?
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    07/03/09

    @WarOperationPlanResponse_GitEm...: Neato
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    06/25/09

    In reply to HP Invents Time Machine, Converts iPhone into Classic Calculator
    Great, but not if you're still in school since having a cellphone (even if it is pretending to be a calculator) will generally get you thrown out of a test. And if you have to have a hardware calculator anyway, why spend extra on this?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/25/09

    In reply to HP Invents Time Machine, Converts iPhone into Classic Calculator
    AARGH! I hate those HP 12C calculators so much! They are incredibly non-intuitive to use.
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    Image of Grendel Grendel
    06/25/09

    In reply to HP Invents Time Machine, Converts iPhone into Classic Calculator
    Is there any way to turn OFF articles that feature the iphone/Apps/Apple-in-general on Gizmodo?


    Its like more than half of the entries listed this past month have been about the damn Iphone.


    /grrrr

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    06/25/09

    @Grendel: I think it has to do with the release of the iPhone.
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    06/25/09

    @Grendel: Yes, there is a way. It's a shame you haven't figured it out already rather than, you know, whined about it on here...
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/25/09

    @Six Demon Bag: Lite: At least he asked how to filter them out. That's more than most people do.
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    06/25/09

    @Grendel: Okay, here it goes.


    not iphone - [gizmodo.com]


    Firstly,


    To exclude a tag, just append /tag/not:tag (replace the italicized portion with the tag you wish to exclude.) ex. [gizmodo.com]


    To include only specific tags, append, /tag/tag ex. [gizmodo.com]


    These can be combined. Just use the /tag/ portion of the address only once.


    For example, to get posts with a cellphone tag, but not with a tag of htc, (/tag/cellphones/not:htc) [gizmodo.com]


    Or, ipod vs zune, (/tag/ipod/zune) [gizmodo.com]

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    06/25/09

    @Grendel: And here I am thinking that the Internet is a big enough place for everyone to be completely satisfied.


    I guess some aren't happy unless they get to complain or hate something. That's probably why the first Matrix was such a failure.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/25/09

    @Grendel:


    "Is there any way to turn OFF articles that feature the iphone/Apps/Apple-in-general on Gizmodo?"


    easy - just click that little box with an X in it at the upper right hand corner of your browser.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/25/09

    In reply to HP Invents Time Machine, Converts iPhone into Classic Calculator
    The most expensive app I have is Zagat to Go which is of far more use to far more people for far less money.


    Tell HP they bollixed the price point.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/25/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: i think they're aiming at the gadget lovin' baby boomers that like to blow their cash. not the bacon eatin', crt lovin' gadget gurus that like to jet set from coast to coast.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/25/09

    @Nick: As a proud member of Generation X and the child of two hippies, let me state for the record that Baby Boomers are my sworn enemy. And that includes my two Baby Boomer parents, both born in 1946.


    My parents know the rule: They're old. Accordingly, they do not get gadgets without my approval and/or recommendation. The only reason my mother got an Asus eeePC is because I told her about it and recommended it.


    iPhones are for ironic Gen-X hipsters, not aging hippies. And yes, as a Gen-Xer, I plan on being every bit as nostalgic-obnoxious as the Baby Boomers.

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